Explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods.
A new paperback edition of the winner of the 1999 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
*A fascinating study of the early American experience in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean *Includes previously unpublished and rarely seen personal travel accounts complemented by more than 30 illustrations
In 1862, the Prince of Wales embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accomplished practitioner of the still young art of photography.
A fast-paced novel of youthful love, post-conflict violence, and family honor that moves between the villages and prisons of Iraq and the nightclubs of Madrid
A rich and sensitive novel about loss and alienation, about life lived in exile, and about the search for home, shortlisted for the Arabic Booker
An Egyptian journalist in Iraq witnesses Saddam's rise to power while investigating the disappearance of an Iraqi woman.